From: "R. Torres" <rt@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:59:24 -0500
Subject: Task Force to help APS respond to the Report on the Climate for Women in Physics at ANL

August 21, 2002
TO: APS Employees
FROM: J.M. Gibson
SUBJECT: Task Force to help APS respond to the Report on the Climate
for Women in Physics at Argonne National Laboratory
The report produced by a team from the American Physical Society that
visited Argonne in January 2002 raised a number of serious issues about
the working environment at Argonne
http://www.anl.gov/OPA/argonnet/apsreanl.pdf. Although the original
report focused on women physicists at the lab, many of the issues
identified are relevant to the working climate for all APS employees. I
am deeply committed to improving this climate, and especially to
removing any barriers that impede under-represented groups. To that
end, I have appointed a task force to recommend actions we might take to
improve the climate for women at APS.
Liz Moog (XFD) has agreed to lead this important task force along with
the following members: Judi Yaeger (XFD), Kelly Jaje (ASD), Susan
Strasser (AOD), Trudy Bolin (XFD), and Mark Erdmann (XFD). Please
contact them if you have specific suggestions or concerns. I am asking
the task force to give me their initial recommendations by October 30.